Categories: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Conquer Conflict
April 22, 2016 The Conflict Resolution Issue of Risk Management Essentials is now available. For your convenience, the newsletter is available in three formats: As a turn-the-page online magazine. As a downloadable PDF. As searchable, online articles. We've also made...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Confessions of a Risk-Taker
As an employee of the go-to organization for advice on any and everything risky, I realized that some people probably assume I’m a professional worrywart. You probably wouldn’t be surprised if I told you I constantly fret over danger, like...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Coffee, Confusion and Continuous Improvement
The book Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin, is a close-up look at the career of a performer who seemed to skyrocket to success as a standup comedian and then movie-star. As readers of Martin’s book quickly realize, his fast-track to...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Beneath the Halo
Author Duncan Watts’ discussion of “The Halo Effect” in his book, Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer led me to reflect on the halos that hover above nonprofit organizations. The Halo Effect is in essence a form of...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Your Staff Has a Thousand Eyes
Only the very largest nonprofits in the U.S. — about one in a thousand — have a person on staff with a job title like “risk manager” or “insurance manager.” Instead, the most direct responsibility for preventing or financing recovery...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Your Special Skills in Managing Risk
Sifting for Truth This column focuses on how executive directors and other senior managers of community-serving nonprofits can use the special knowledge and skills they apply in advancing their nonprofit’s mission to manage their organizations’ strategic risk management. Everyone, to...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Banish Overconfidence to Unleash Originality
April 20, 2016 I recently purchased tickets to attend one of the stops on Garrison Keillor's farewell Prairie Home Companion tour. Although I've heard it countless times during his weekly radio broadcast and it's a bit corny, I'm looking forward...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Your Questions Answered by the NRMC Staff
Our Favorite Recent TA Question — We’ve selected our favorite recent technical assistance question (and our answer) to feature in this and future editions of the Center’s eNews. Q: Do we need a Code of Ethics? A: There is no legal...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
How to Bring the Power of Intuition to the Discipline of Risk Management
In her thought-provoking book, Artistry Unleashed, Hilary Austen lays out a framework for tapping surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity and change to improve personal performance. To a traditionalist, risk management theory and practice seem to be at war with Austen’s invitation to embrace...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Would You Sign a Contract You Have Not Read?
Few days pass when I’m not asked to sign a contract. Whether it’s a form granting permission to record a workshop, or a “click through agreement” I must complete to sit in the exit row on an outbound flight, pages...
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